Since the 1970s, Outward Bound (OB) has borrowed psychological language and models to articulate its educational objectives and methods in terms accessible to mainstream educators. This report claims that OB's uncritical adoption of psychological language and models will undermine its commitment to certain core values of its tradition. This is supported by analyses of three attempts to explain some aspect of OB's educational objectives and methods. In each case, it is shown how the adoption of psychological language and models is accompanied by the de-emphasis or omission of a traditional value and the traditional value is de-emphasized or omitted because it is incompatible with the views of the world and human nature reflected in the language and models. Assuming that the language and models used to describe objectives and methods influence educational practice, the de-emphasis or omission of traditional values in descriptions of OB will undermine commitment to them at the level of practice. Recommendations of how OB might strengthen its commitment to its traditional values are presented, and it is suggested that OB make explicit the views which are implicit in its tradition and then develop their implications for conceiving, designing, instructing, staffing, administering and evaluating its courses. (Author/JMM)